This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from… — Dogen Copy Share Image
